ج ل خ

Arabic

Etymology

Probably a variant of ج ل ح (j-l-ḥ).

Root

ج ل خ • (j-l-ḵ)

1. related to honing

Derived terms

• Form I: جَلَخَ (jalaḵa, “to abrade, to grind, to strop”)
  • Verbal noun: جَلْخ (jalḵ)
  • Active participle: جَالِخ (jāliḵ)
  • Passive participle: مَجْلُوخ (majlūḵ)
• Form II: جَلَّخَ (jallaḵa, “to abrade, to grind, to strop”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْلِيخ (tajlīḵ)
  • Active participle: مُجَلِّخ (mujalliḵ)
  • Passive participle: مُجَلَّخ (mujallaḵ)
• Form IX: اِجْلَخَّ (ijlaḵḵa, “to be debile, to be feeble”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْلِخَاخ (ijliḵāḵ)
  • Active participle: مُجْلَخّ (mujlaḵḵ)
• Form XV: اِجْلَنْخَى (ijlanḵā, “to collapse”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْلِنْخَاء (ijlinḵāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُجْلَنْخٍ (mujlanḵin)

• مِجْلَخَة (mijlaḵa, “grinder, grindstone”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج ل خ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 293
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ج ل خ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 190–191